Spooling-machine.



0. l.- OWEN. SPOOLING MACHINE.

- APPLICATION FILED OCT- 20, I915- 1,189,285. Patented July 4, 1916.

' 2 SHEETS-SHEET l- 0. L. OWEN.

SPOOLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED-OCT. 20, ms.

Patented July 4, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- unrTEn STATES PATENTFF1GE OSCAR L. OWEN, 0F WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHITIN MACHINE WORKS, OF WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION O]? MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1916.

Application filed October 20, 1915. SerialNo. 56,963.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OSCAR L. OWEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Whitinsville, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Spoofing-Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to spooling machines of the type wherein a plurality of thread guides are mounted on a horizontal support or traverse rod supported by ver tical lifting rods which are reciprocated by a suitable traversing motion whereby the guides lay the threads upon the spools. In a machine of this construction it is frequently necessary to make adjustments in the height of the traverse rod so that the I guides contained thereon will lay the yarn on spools properly. To make this adjustment to a nicety in the present construction of spoolers requires considerable skill and labor on the part of the operative and also there is a loss in the productive capacity of the machine as it is necessary to stop it while the adjustments are being made.

The object of my invention is to provide simple and inexpensive means whereby the above mentioned defects are eliminated.

The novel feature of my invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claim.

Figure 1, in transverse section taken within one of the end frames, represents a spooling machine with my invention embodied therein. Fig. 2, is a side view showing the traverse cam, the oscillating shaft, the lifting rods and the guide bar. Fig. 3, is an enlarged detail, partly broken out, showing my improved means for adjusting the level of the guide rod.

The end frames 1, middle supports 2, both of suitable design to support the operative parts, the series of spool receiving spindles 3 provided with whirls 4, the driving cylinder 5 connected with the spindle whirls by bands 6, the bobbin holders 7 the traverse rod 8 supporting the thread guides 9, the lifting rods 10 connected by links 11 and studs 12 to the lifting arm 13 on the rockshaft 14, the oscillating arm 15 actuated by the pinion 16 on traverse motion shaft 17 the actuating .traverse cam 18 and spool boxes 23 may be and are all of well known construction. 7

In a spooling machine as usually constructed the traverse rod 8 is held in fixed brackets fastened to the top of the lifting rods. vVith this construction when the operative finds it necessary to alter the level of the traverse rod, the lifting rod is adjusted up or down as required by changing its position in the stud holding collar 12 adjustably held on the lifting rod by the set screw 19. To accomplish this the machine must be stopped and the bobbin boxes removed from the machine in order to give the operative access to the holding collar set screw 19. By the use of my invention the traverse rod 8 is supported at each end by movable brackets 20 mounted on top of the lifting rods. Each bracket is provided with means for altering its relative position with the top of the lifting rod, preferably by an adjusting screw 21 threaded into the body of the bracket and impinging on the top of the lifting rod. The adjustment of the traverse rod is efiected by raising or lowering the brackets with relation to the top of thelifting rods by. the turning of the adjusting screw. fter the proper position of the rod has been attained the bracket is securely fixed to the lifting rod by any suitable means, such for instance, the set'screw 22. Owing to the open position of the adjusting screw with relation to adjacent partsof the machine, the adjustment can be readily effected without stopping the machine.

What is claimed as new is:

i In a spooling machine, a series of rotatable spool carriers, thread guides, a traverse rod on which they are mounted, brackets holding the traverserod and supported by vertically reciprocating members specification in the presence of two Witwhizh effegtbthe1 travl'oersing of the thread nesses. gui es, sai rac iets eing provided With a vertical adjusting screw whereby the dis- OSCAR OWVEN' 5 tance of the thread guide from the top of Witnesses:

the reciprocating member is varied. CHARLES A. ALLEN,

In testimony whereof, I have signed this JOHN F. MoGINNIss.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or Patents, 1 7

Washington, D. O. 

